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• Sunday, August 31, 2008 06:42 AM

  Heh

  Regarding jurisdictional issues, any local PD agency can call on surrounding city and county agencies for "assistance" and it probably is under the aegis of some federal task force in this case.

  I'm not sure what Cargo is on about with Amy G but he does have a point here, later backed up by maotsetung and I'm sure William would chime in if he were still here. There is a very real possibility that an agent provocateur had his or her hand in all of this. I think it is safe to say all these groups were infiltrated. Too easy to do.

  Someone want to tell me why that is? Maybe some of these left-wing heroes are really serving an entirely different agenda.

  There was the case here in California of the undercover officer at Peace Fresno, but he just infiltrated and spied on them.

  Tuesday, Oct. 9 --Members of the organization Peace Fresno were recently shocked when they found out that one of their participants, Aaron Stokes, died in a motorcycle accident. An obituary published in the local newspaper in late August showed Aaron's picture. But the name under the picture was not Aaron Stokes. It was Aaron Kilner - an undercover detective who was working for the Fresno County Sheriff's department. He was also a member of the local anti-terrorism unit. Kilner was 26 years old and the father of two girls.

  Peace Fresno activists are concerned that an undercover officer attending their meetings is in violation of their personal liberties and civil rights. Fresno County sheriff Richard Pierce would not answer whether or not Kilner was attending meetings but asserted that he "was not and is not the subject of any investigation by the Fresno County Police Department." But in a statement issued October 2, Pierce declared, "For the purpose of detecting or preventing terrorist activities, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department may visit any place and attend any event that is open to the public, on the same terms and conditions as members of the public generally."

  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/09/1556226

  Michelle Goldberg in Salon, 2004

  Outlawing dissent

  Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war on terror has become a war on freedom.

  By Michelle Goldberg

  http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/02/11/cointelpro/

  —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters
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